Elenowen

The husband-and-wife writing and singing team of Josh and Nicole Johnson make up the Nashville-based country-folk-rock duo Elenowen. The couple met and fell in love in high school. Both pursued separate singing and music careers until 2009, when they joined forces after hearing Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand album. Only a year later, the duo released Pulling Back the Veil. Selected to appear as contestants on the television show The Voice, Josh and Nicole were mentored by country singer Blake Shelton and picked up hordes of fans from their appearances on the show. Never really a country act in the strict sense, Elenowen honed their haunting folk-rock sound, and released a self-titled EP in 2012. ~ Steve Leggett